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First French edition of Parkinson's account of Cook's first voyage

PARKINSON, Sydney. Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l'Endeavour, ... précédé d'un discours en forme d'introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l'Endeavour: suivi d'un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais. Par le C. Henri.
Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. 12, LVI, 344; [4], 309, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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The Batavia wreck and mutiny: the extremely rare first edition

[PELSAERT, François]. Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien. Gebleven op de Abrolhos van Frederick Houtman ...
Including:
- [VLIET, Jeremias van]. Verbael ende historisch verhael van't gene des Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnies dienaers, onder de directie van Jeremias van Vliet, in de jaren 1636 ende 1637 by den koningh van Siam in de stadt Judia vedervaren is. ...
- Droevigh verhael van't gene sich in Persia in 't Konincklijcke Hof ende stadt Espahan ... in den jare 1645 toegedragen heeft. ...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansz., 1647. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 4to. With 6 folding plates containing full-size scenes of the bloody mutiny, 2 large woodcut decorated initials, and an ornamental woodcut tailpiece. Modern gold-tooled half dark red morocco and dark orange cloth sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. [2], 118 pp. Full description
€ 275,000
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Second and improved edition of one the finest items of Australiana

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.
Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin. XXIV, 400; 532; 432; 353, [4] pp.; Atlas vol. [10] pp. text (Index of plates). Full description
€ 35,000
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A photographic tour from France to Australia, via Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, EGYPT & FRANCE]. [Album containing photographs of Australia, Egypt and France].
[ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (28 x 39 cm). With 58 printed photographs (ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm). Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. Contemporary black morocco, gold-tooling to boards and spine and gilt on all edges. [60] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Magnificent engraving of the 1661 mosaic floor map of the world in 2 hemispheres,
incorporating Tasman's discoveries not otherwise published for decades

[PLAN - AMSTERDAM CITY HALL]. [CAMPEN, Jacob van]. Le pavé de la grand' sale des bourgeois.
[Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, 1719]. Very large engraved folding plan comprising 1 1/2 sheets (measuring 46 x 83 cm as assembled), engraved by Danckert Danckertsz. and his father after drawings by Jacob Vennekool, including the two hemispheres of the world map and a celestial map of the constellations of the northern hemisphere (each 10 cm in diameter). Full description
€ 2,500
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Early New Zealand imprint, in the Maori language

[PUCKEY, William Gilbert and William COLENSO (translator)]. Ko nga upoko ewitu o te Pukapuka a te Poropiti a Raniera: me te Pukapuka ano hoki a te Poropiti a Hona: ...
Paihia (New Zealand), "Perehi o nga Mihanere" (= Missionary Press [operated by William Colenso]), 1840. Large 12mo (20 x 12 cm). contemporary grey paper wrapper. 32 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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